Does it seem to others that we have an epidemic of parents killing their own children?

yes, and its sickening. I could never imagine a hurting or killing anyone let alone children.

I dont know if they are just publicizing it more, but there have been way more cases in the news in the past couple months of missing or dead kids, usually with the parents to blame, then usual, it seems like every day theres one or two more toddlers "mysteriously" disappearing from their homes. I wouldnt make it a death penalty offense as the people who do kill their kids are usually mentally ill and would do it regardless of the punishment, plus life in prison knowing you kill your child would be more of a punishment, I dont believe in killing people for crimes. Instead, prevention would be a better tool to use, looking for warning signs in unstable parents and offering mental help.

I have noticed the same thing and the parents that have gotten away with it are giving "hope" the the parents who have given it a try. I have seen the growth and I am disgusted by it. It should have ALWAYS been a death penalty offense to murder a child, yours or not.

Yes. I see stories of parents killing kids daily. It's always horrible deaths too (oven, washing machine, dryer). I'm not even talking about the ones that shake their babies (anyone could have a bad day/be stressed out and accidentally shake their baby). While I do support the death penalty, I don't think these people should get it. I think they should get life in prison and have to spend every day of the rest of their lives thinking about what they did.

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If the death penalty is supposed to work as a deterrent, then I'm not sure how this applies. No parent is only allowing their kid to live because they might be put to death if they get caught for killing them. Children are killed due to mental health issues - from postpartum depression to psychopathy. Psychopaths are monsters masquerading as human beings - and they are eventually weeded out without the need to diminish actual humans and question human ability to allow their children to live absent a death penalty hanging over their heads. I find the idea insulting.

Other than psychopaths, people struggling with mental illness fail to get the help they need until it is too late BECAUSE we have such a stigma against mental illness. It is our attitude towards mental illness that keeps it in the dark and secret places of our society, and so WE ALL have to take responsibility for the killing of our children. Any person that advocates against legitimate psychiatry practices, including therapy and medication, are responsible for the deaths of children at the hands of their mentally ill parents.

Thank you Nancy Grace - for your pressured speech and ranting and crazed maniacal stalking of families in crisis making us all look inhuman and making fellow humans look at each other like there might be a monster hiding under that docile exterior.

an epidemic? of course not. that's why it's so newsworthy when it does happen: it's amazingly rare.

people who have so far lost it that they'd kill their own child are not going to change their mind because the penalty might be death rather than life in prison. more importantly, our justice system is fallible and the death penalty is irrevocable, and when we all take on the role of killing someone who could as easily be put in prison, we all lose part of our humanity.

Yes. Casey Anthony started a epidemic. Look at Baby Lisa. She was never found. Someone wanted to be like Casey and get payed for killing a child. Who will be next?

No an epidemic would be the 300,000 people dying in Darfur, Sudan in the last year.

A story is a few children dying in the last five years.

The problem is proving it. Look at the Casey Anthony case. Everyone under the sun knows she killed her own kid but the morons they let on the jury let her walk. She would have gotten the death penalty.